G.W. Stephen Brodsky | |
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November 19, 1933 Brantford, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Army, (retired), research scholar, author |
| Education | Doctor of Philosophy (Lit.) |
Gabriel Wilfrid Stephen Brodsky (born in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, 19 November 1933) is a research scholar and author in Literature of War and in Joseph Conrad studies.
Life[]
G. W. Stephen Brodsky joined the Canadian Army Reserves in 1949, aged fifteen, as a boy drummer. He subsequently served 1951–83 as a career soldier in regular army paratroop and conventional units of the Canadian Infantry. He saw operational tours of duty with NATO in West Germany, as a UN Peacekeeper in Cyprus and Kashmir, and as an instructor of officers.
Brodsky holds a Master of Arts degree (University of Victoria, Canada) in Renaissance Literature and Drama, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree (University of York, UK) in Modern Literature with specialist studies in the works of Joseph Conrad. As a military professor on the academic faculty of Royal Roads Military College in Victoria, Canada, he taught military ethics and Literature, and subsequently was a civilian Special Lecturer on Literature of War. A former trustee of the Joseph Conrad Society of America (2012–14), Brodsky writes and publishes literary criticism and reviews.
Bibliography[]
- G. W. Stephen Brodsky, Gentlemen of the Blade: A Social and Literary History of the British Army Since 1660, Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood / Praeger, 1988, ISBN|9780313260674.[1][2]
- William J. Patterson, "A Regiment Worthy of Its Hire," ed. G. W. Stephen Brodsky, The Canadian Guards Association,1991,ff.ISBN 0-9692355-0-6.</ref>[3][4]
- (1)"Conrad's Darkness Visible": Occidental Orientalism and the Exotic in the Malay Tales".(2)Elmar Schenkel, "Fusspuren", G. W. Stephen Brodsky, Trans. and Commentary,in "Zwischen Ost und West: Joseph Conrad im Europaischen Gesprache, ed. Elmar Schenkel, Hans-Christian Trepte, Schriftenreihe der Societas Jablonoviana, vol. 2, Leipzig UP, 209-239, 2019.ISBN 978-3-86583-471-3.
- G. W. Stephen Brodsky, God's Dodger: The Story of a Front Line Chaplain, Sydney, Canada, Elysium, 1993, ISBN 0-9697009-0-3.[5][6]
- G. W. Stephen Brodsky, Joseph Conrad’s Polish Soul: Realms of Memory and Self, edited by George Z. Gasyna (Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives Series, vol. 25), Lublin, Maria Curie Skłodowska University Press / New York, Columbia University Press, 2016, 409 pp., ISBN 9788377847862.[7][8][9]</ref>[10]
References[]
- ↑ Brodsky, Stephen (1988). Gentlemen of the Blade: A Social and Literary History of the British Army since 1660. Westport, CT: Greenwood/Praeger. ISBN 9780313260674.
- ↑ Robin Higham, review of Gentlemen of the Blade, in Albion, vol. 21, no. 4, 1989, pp. 634-35.
- ↑ William J. Patterson, "A Regiment Worthy of Its Hire",ed. G. W. Stephen Brodsky, Ottawa, The Canadian Guards Association,148, ff. 1991. ISBN 0-9692355-0-6.
- ↑ Harold R. Winton, review of Gentlemen of the Blade, in American Historical Review, April 1991, pp. 503-505.
- ↑ Brodsky, G. W. Stephen (1993). God's Dodger: The Story of a Front Line Chaplain. Sydney,Canada: Elysium. ISBN 0-9697009-0-3.
- ↑ Jeffery Williams, review of God's Dodger, in The Journal of Military History, Vol. 58, Issue 1-2, Jan 1994, p. 163.
- ↑ Brodsky, Stephen. Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul: Realms of Memory and Self. Ed. George Gasyna. Lublin: Maria Curie Skłodowska Press/New York: Columbia University Press, 2016 ISBN 9788377847862.
- ↑ Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pospiech, review of Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul, in Joseph Conrad Today, vol. 43, no. 2. 2019, pp. 5-7.
- ↑ Anna Gąsienica Byrcyn, review of Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul, in The Polish Review, vol. 63, no. 4. 2018, pp. 103-105.
- ↑ Paul and Audrey Grescoe, "The Book of War Letters", McLelland and Stewart, 2003, 398-400,ISBN I-55199-105-5.
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